Deaths in Custody
Executed

Marlin Hancock

43 years old · died August 20, 1943 · Georgia State Prison, Tattnall County, Georgia

Marlin Hancock, 43, was executed in the electric chair at Georgia State Prison in Reidsville on August 20, 1943, by the State of Georgia. The Georgia Department of Corrections lists the death as an execution. The available source gives no information about his family, work, or life beyond the execution itself, and no other account of the death is disputed in the material reviewed.

Cause of death, as reported: Executed by the state

Reported by: Georgia Department of Corrections (the agency that held him). The only account of how this person died comes from the agency that held him.

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